Velibor Čolic
Laureate of the literary residency From one language to another 2014 in Marseille.
Velibor Čolic was born in Bosnia in 1954. He studied Yugoslav literature and languages there. He then became literary critic and rock critic for regional radio. For political reasons, he was dismissed and exiled in France in 1992. He spent about ten years in Strasbourg where he made musical chronicles for the regional daily. Later, he moved to Brittany where he still resides.
Velibor Čolic’s writing is marked by the brutality of his childhood and his sharp humour. He writes in an incisive language that he does not keep in his pocket. His narrative is composite, fragmented by a particular rhythm that gives it all its power. The author constantly oscillates between hardness and tenderness, derision and despair, poetry and humour. He writes in a precise and clear musical language. Velibor Čolic questions borders; between East and West, he tells the story of the Balkans and the barbarity of a civil war.
Thanks to Jesus and Tito, Velibor Čolic was awarded the Jean Monnet Young Europeans Prize in 2012, and the PACA High School and Apprentice Literary Prize in 2012. With Sarajevo Omnibus, he was awarded the European Literary Prize ADELF in 2013. He is the laureate of the literary residency From one language to another Marseille for a period from 5 May to 5 July 2014 and another from 1er October to November 31, 2014. The author will carry out creative work but also meetings and workshops with local actors.
Bibliography of books published in French
The Bosnians
Stories, Galilee, 1993
Chronicle of the forgotten
Tales, The Feathered Snake, 1994
Amadeo Modigliani’s fantastically short and strange life
Roman, The Feathered Snake, 1995
Mother funker
Roman, The Feathered Snake, 2001
Perdido
Roman, The Feathered Snake, 2005
Archanges (roman a capella)
Roman, Gaïa Editions, 2008
Jesus and Tito
Roman, Gaïa Editions, 2010
Sarajevo Omnibus
Roman, Gallimard, 2012
Bibliography of books not translated into French
Madrid, Granada, ili bilo koji drugi grad (Madrid, Granada, or any other city)
Roman, Quorum, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1987
Odricanje Svetog Petra (renunciation of Saint Peter)
Roman, Quorum, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1991
Kod Alberta (at Alberto)
Roman, Naklada Ljevak, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006
- Sheet produced by Charlotte Ferrari, intern at the DRAC PACA with the advisor for books and reading as part of a license of Public Management at the IMPGT, Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance, Aix-Marseille University.
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